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Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘What, if anything, can people like me do about it?’

After a week of alarming warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our technology reporters Aisha Down, Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo answer your questions on the reality of the AI threat

Trump to create ‘AI Force’ to monitor technology as fears over out-of-control agents grow

President had brushed away suggestions to slow down AI technology, even as his own party counseled caution

Trump vows to form "AI Force," says he won't allow slowdown of AI development

September 19, 2026 / 2:52 PM EDT / CBS News

Treat AI Like a Normal Crisis

What if the doomers and skeptics are both a little bit right?

Trump says he will form AI Force to be led by czar

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he is forming an “AI Force” and will soon name an artificial intelligence “czar” to lead the effort.

Lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal deal on AI slowdown

September 19, 2026 / 1:49 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It Might

The longtime tech journalist says she’s seen Silicon Valley make the same mistakes again and again.

What AI Anxiety Looks Like in China

A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one.

The AI kill switch, explained: 'It's not too little, but it's probably too late'

As runaway AI fears reach a crescendo, policymakers and tech leaders are weighing the effectiveness of a magic AI stop button known as a kill switch.

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US fashion CEO resigns after physically restraining animal rights activists

Steven Kolb of the Council of Fashion Designers of America was filmed during an altercation at New York fashion week

'Just cut the wires': why UK conspiracy theorists are destroying traffic scanners

Sensors that monitor vehicle volume are said to be ‘electronic assault weapons’ by the ‘Blade Runners’ group